While Congressional Democrats are struggling to pass an infrastructure bill containing climate initiatives, L4GG is working directly with US cities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

US cities are much nimbler than Congress and are able to implement climate policies through local laws. In fact, the scientific community estimates that increasing renewable energy demand at the state and local level could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 37% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Read more about our program in Bloomberg Law’s Insights here - our Director of Climate Change Program Jillian Blanchard is featured.

Not only have we produced 11 State Profiles, or guides to the legal landscape of renewable energy in each state, we’ve also directly trained 34 cities from 7 different states on the viability of using new financing tools to increase renewable energy in their locality.

Our work is having a real impact: we provide the legal tools necessary for local decision makers to make new agreements and change their energy usage.For example, one recent local agreement allowed a county in Virginia to purchase 79 million kWh of energy annually from a new solar project, reducing CO2 emissions by 55,986 metric tons annually (roughly the equivalent of taking 12,176 gas vehicles off the road).

Imagine the impact if all 34 cities trained by L4GG implemented a similar agreement?

You can help:

1. We are in need of volunteers to help conduct the research, analysis, and writing necessary to continue providing legal resources to US cities. You can learn more and sign up for future opportunities here.

2. You can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions today by donating to support our Climate Change and other programs. Your donation is tax deductible and will directly support our efforts to increase renewable energy usage at the state and local levels.

Thank you for your consideration and support.

Traci

Traci Feit Love

Founder & President
Lawyers for Good Government Foundation